- This active chess tournament, in which each player will have 10 minutes per game with 3 extra seconds per play, will be played by Swiss System to nine rounds on 15th March 2025.
- The venue for the tournament will be the Ikastola Paz de Ziganda (Villava, Navarra).
- The schedule of the game rounds will be as follows:
- 1st Round – 10:30, 2nd Round – 11:15, 3rd Round – 12:00
- 4th Round – 12:45, 5th Round – 13:30, 6th Round – 17:00
- 7th Round – 17:45, 8th Round – 18:30, 9th Round – 19:15
- The schedule of the game rounds will be as follows:
- The tournament will have 4 categories: under-8, under-10, under-12 and Special (under-14, under-16). All the categories will play together and there will be a different final standing for each of them.
- Registration must be done through the Tournament website, with a maximum forum of 100 participants. The registration fee is 3€, which has to be put on the board before the start of 1st round.
- The double absence of a player or an unjustified absence will cause their elimination from the tournament. It will be Organization’s decision whether to eliminate the player who does not appear in the first round. It is considered absence to a game to reach to the board with more than 5 minutes of delay on the start of the game.
- Each player can ask up to 3 byes (the player is not paired and receives 0.5 points) for rounds 1-7. The bye for a certain round must be asked before the ending of the previous round. In case the bye is for the rist round, it must be asked when registering.
- For the first round pairings, players will be ranked according to their international rapid rating. If they do not have international rapid rating, then according to the international standard rating and, lastly, in alphabetical order.
- No analysis will be allowed in the game room.
- Pairings, which will be done with computer software, will be displayed in the game room.
- Claims to the pairing will only be taken in case the item subject to the claim involves (this claim must be done no more than five minutes after it has been made public):
- Facing the same rival for the second time.
- Play the same color for the third consecutive time (except in the last round).
- Play with one color three times more than with the other (except in the last round).
- Ties in the final classification will be solved by the following systems and in the order they are expressed:
- Bucholz excepting the worst rival
- Average rating performance of opponents.
- Total Bucholz.
- Number of victories.
- There will be prizes for the top 3 finishers in each category (Under 8, Under 10, Under 12 and Special). In addition, there will be a special prize for the champion and first girl (in case she was not the champion) of each category and the best player from the Ikastola Paz de Ziganda. There will also be gifts for all participants.
- This tournament will be governed by the in force regulations of the F.I.D.E. All participants are subjected to these regulations during the course of the competition.
- Participants in the tournament authorize the publication of their relevant personal data (lists of results, classifications, participants, games, etc.) in the different media that the organization deems appropriate for the necessary dissemination of the event.
- The organization reserves the right to refuse any registration.
- Registration in the tournament implies acceptance of the present rules.
- These rules are valid except for typographical errors.
